. :(  house goes to pot and then some investor or wholesaler picks it up and the cycle repeats.. these properties in my mind for the good of the community should ONLY be owned by locals who know the score know how to run them. 

Sorry @David FaulknerYou are also just trying to stir the pot.  

Tell them that you will pay it to them on their way out the door, with them taking all their possessions, leaving the place broom clean, and they sign a paper saying that they are voluntarily giving up all claim to the property. 

Once the tenant voluntarily leaves, you do not have to evict.

The solution I have decided on for myself is a personal one and is not the sort that can be applied universally, or maybe better said it is not realistic to believe for a second it would ever happen voluntarily so, WTF am I doing posting it???

., I will throw my two cents into the pot and offer this advice.  

You learn if they show up on time, if they bring someone who speaks for them instead of being able to speak for themselves, if they show up with an entourage that reeks of pot, you can walk them out to their vehicle to see if it's full of trash and filthy, if they smell of smoke, if they are a couple and argue about everything loudly, if they have screaming, unruly children, if they don't ask about normal things like where is the laundry, what's the parking situation, how big are the closets...all things that point to someone desperate.  

So as far as I'm concerned, those support squirrels and raccoons etc. go in the pot or get ground into dog food.

Do you think she is going to voluntarily cough up your money.. 

This gave them a chance to voluntarily move in anticipation of this increase; I just got the first notice from one of them yesterday, that they will be moving.